Thanks to all that responded to this thread I learned from it.

I actually validate the data before it even gets to the insert or update 
statment to make sure there are no evil characters out there trying to 
cause me pain.

I do have one more question I fixed the insert query now onto the update 
query where the syntax is a little different so from your example I should 
be able to do this then correct?

PO_Date= '" 
concat_ws('-',$_POST['PO_Year'],$_POST['PO_Month'],$_POST['PO_Day'])'"

or would I not need the ' around all of them.  Any good sites out there to 
explain when to use ' and when to use "  sorry kind of a newbie but 
appreicate all of the help maybe one day I can return the favor.

Khris



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concat_ws('-',{$_POST['PO_Year']},{$_POST['PO_Month']},{$_POST['PO_Day']
})

I'm pretty sure this will error because of the unneccessary {}'s around
the POST array items.  PHP really doesn't like you using extra curlies
around variables, it's very picky.

Instead:
concat_ws('-',$_POST['PO_Year'],$_POST['PO_Month'],$_POST['PO_Day'])

Not trying to be anal, I've just been bitten many a time as I do lots of
dynamic class and variable coding, and ritualistically try to thunk
curlies around most everything.

> ps. I strongly recommend validating data before you insert into the db

I couldn't agree more.

Cheers,

- Martin Norland, Database / Web Developer, International Outreach x3257
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